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CHAPTER XIX Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Leonardo increasingly came to realize that mathematics was the key to turning observations into theories. It was the language that nature used to write her laws. “There is no certainty in sciences where mathematics cannot be applied,” he declared.1 He was correct. Using geometry to understand the laws of perspective taught him how math could extrac
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In Plato’s Timaeus, the demiurge is a benevolent intermediary between the realm of eternal forms and the realm of mutability;
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
This defining feature of human reason and will gives them their expansiveness, their positive inclination to the universal – that is, an interest in principle in everything that may be good or intelligible – and their negative tendency to be dissatisfied with anything short of the total and complete truth or good.97 This unlimited openness makes th
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